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The ASP.NET MVC Framework was the vision of Scott Guthrie in early 2007. With a prototype demonstration in late 2007 and a key hire of Phil Haack as the Senior Program Manager of the feature team, Mr. Guthrie made the vision a reality. At a time when the .NET community was becoming frustrated that other platforms had great MVC frameworks such as Tapestry, Rails, and the like, Web Forms was losing favor as developers struggled to make it do things unimagined when it became public in 2001. Castle MonoRail was a very capable framework and continues to have strong leadership behind it, but the broader .NET industry needed a change from Web Forms. Phil Haack, with his experience outside of Microsoft and in the open source community, ...

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